“Lacklustre, oftentimes dull” – Exhalation by Ted Chiang
“A skittish tapestry” – Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
“Will leave you hankering for more” – State of the Union by Nick Hornby
“Funny, smart, philosophical and satirical” – Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
“The format became repetitive” – The Great Naturalists by Robert Huxley
“Compelling and tense” – Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
“Not an easy read” – To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek
“Ticks a lot of boxes” – The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
“A charming addition to any bookshelf” – I Go Quiet by David Quimet
“Dissonant harmonics” – Handling Stolen Goods by Degna Stone
“Steeped in period atmosphere” – The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry
“One of the surprise hits of 2019” – The Tenderness of Stones by Marion Fayolle
On the Pile: August
“A light-weight page-turner” – The Burning Land by George Alagiah
“Could well be his best work yet” – Growing Things by Paul Tremblay
“Supply your own favourite synonym for excellent”- Patience by Toby Litt
“A wry, amusing account” – The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
“An uneasy collision” – 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
“The man’s a true legend” – My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
“Dark, dank and disturbing” – Mailman by J Robert Lennon
“Will attract a much-deserved wider readership” – The Offing by Benjamin Myers
“Brief, punchy” – Say Say Say by Lila Savage
“Always luminous” – September 1, 1939 by Ian Sansom
“Witty, serious, difficult but accessible” – Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
“The devil made me do it!” – Idiot Wind by Peter Kaldheim
“A book for pensive consideration” – The Archipelago of Another Life by Andrei Makine
“This is a Marmite kind of a novel” – The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
“This is how you do it” – The Bitterroots by CJ Box
